Kayla A. Kaiser, CSUN #ChemChamps
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My name is Kayla Kaiser and I'm a chemistry champion!
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I was born in Omaha Nebraska. I went to school at the University of Nebraska at
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I lived in the honors dormitory and I studied chemistry with my friends.
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I started doing undergraduate research as a sophomore.
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My first project involved chromatography,
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which separates a parent molecule from its byproducts
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and we used this to study a common herbicide in groundwater and corn plants.
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I attended my first ACS national meeting in 2001.
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I visited Texas A&M University for summer research
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where I learned the technique of infrared spectroscopy.
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Spectroscopy is the use of electromagnetic radiation to investigate
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and abundance. There I learned about computer processing of "big data."
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I headed to Arizona State University for graduate school
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and I studied surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy
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investigating a protein that is a marker of non-healing wounds such as burns and
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At the University of California, Riverside
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I studied chemical genomics using the model plant Arabidopsis
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by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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and chromatography. As a leader in the Graduate Student Association we organized
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demonstrations for K -12 students in our community.
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At the W. M. Keck science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps
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I continued my K -12 outreach. I managed a small research group while
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teaching lecture, general chemistry, and laboratory.
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It was my pleasure to teach chromatography, buffers, and extractions
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for the analysis a plant tissues to my research group. The overarching theme of my research
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the study of plant signaling and metabolism. Now, I use the statistical
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techniques I learned in research
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to analyze the "big data" in education. I use quantitative analysis of the
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student's performance
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on exams and other assessments to adjust my teaching methods.
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Our outreach efforts are focused on increasing the diversity of
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under-represented groups in science
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and encouraging young women and girls to pursue STEM fields.
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At California State University, Northridge I teach introductory and
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general chemistry. I am
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also the adviser to the chemistry and biochemistry club.
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We organize K -12 outreach in honor of National chemistry week.
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I should be named a chemistry champion because I'm a role model every day in
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the classroom and the community.
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ACS national meetings keep me up to date with the latest research in educational
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better train the next generation of Chemistry champions. Here we see the separation of
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low-molecular-weight compounds from higher molecular weight compounds
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represented by different colors of paper and we have the column
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which is a nice purple color. You see each student is embodying
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in the kinesthetic learning activity of chromatography.
This was the first time I had a transcript automatically generated for a video on YouTube. It was mostly correct with the exception of "plant Arabidopsis" translated to "plan to wrap it up sis." LOL!
Right now my video is ranked #16 out of 25 entries so I would appreciate you viewing the video if you have 3 minutes to spare. Semifinalists will be informed via email by June 20. Up to 10 semifinalists will be selected. Evaluation Criteria Scientific accuracy; presentation quality; number of views on YouTube. Semifinalists will be flown to San Francisco in August, where they'll deliver their presentations during a private workshop on August 9. Up to five finalists will be selected by ACS staff. Finalists will present in person to a public audience in San Francisco on the evening of August 10. The 2014 ACS Chemistry Champion will be selected by a real-time popular vote incorporating Twitter participation.
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